RMS Antwerp (1919)

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History
Name: TSS Antwerp
Operator:
Port of registry: United Kingdom
Route: Harwich to Antwerp
Builder: John Brown, Clydebank
Yard number: 493
Launched: 26 October 1919
Out of service: 4 May 1951
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage: 2,957 gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 330 feet (100 m)
Beam: 43 feet (13 m)
Draught: 18 feet (5.5 m)

TSS Antwerp was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1919.[1]

History

The ship was built by John Brown of Clydebank for the Great Eastern Railway as one of a contract for two new steamers and launched on 26 October 1919.[2] She was placed on the Harwich to Antwerp route.[3]

In 1923 she was acquired by the London and North Eastern Railway. On 20 November 1932 she collided with the American steamer Hastings in a thick fog off Zeebrugge, but was only lightly damaged, and able to continue her voyage.[4]

She served as a Q-ship in World War I.[5]

She was acquired by British Railways in 1948 and scrapped in 1951.

References

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